From b944f942ee842759d12f7d76c95eee37208dcfcc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Florian Albrechtskirchinger <falbrechtskirchinger@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:59:38 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Correct default thread pool size in README.md (#2077)

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 README.md | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

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@@ -462,7 +462,7 @@ Please see [Server example](https://github.com/yhirose/cpp-httplib/blob/master/e
 
 ### Default thread pool support
 
-`ThreadPool` is used as a **default** task queue, and the default thread count is 8, or `std::thread::hardware_concurrency()`. You can change it with `CPPHTTPLIB_THREAD_POOL_COUNT`.
+`ThreadPool` is used as the **default** task queue, with a default thread count of 8 or `std::thread::hardware_concurrency() - 1`, whichever is greater. You can change it with `CPPHTTPLIB_THREAD_POOL_COUNT`.
 
 If you want to set the thread count at runtime, there is no convenient way... But here is how.